Peculiar earthquake damage on a reinforced concrete building in San Gregorio (L'Aquila, Italy): Site effects or building defects?

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 825-840

  Mucciarelli, Marco ^a   Bianca, Marcello ^a   Ditommaso, Rocco ^a   Vona, Marco ^a   Gallipoli, Maria Rosaria ^b   Giocoli, Alessandro ^b   Piscitelli, Sabatino ^b   Rizzo, Enzo ^b   Picozzi, Matteo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

L'Aquila earthquake; RC building; Site effects; Strong motion recordings; Structural damage

Indexed keywords

L'AQUILA EARTHQUAKE; RC BUILDING; SITE EFFECTS; STRONG MOTION; STRUCTURAL DAMAGES;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; EARTHQUAKES; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SHEAR FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONCRETE BUILDINGS;

ACCELERATION; COLLAPSE; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; MICROTREMOR; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; NOISE; OUTCROP; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SITE EFFECT; STRONG MOTION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ITALY;

AQUILA;

EID: 79955813621     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-011-9257-3     Document Type: Article

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